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+1 to the observation, -1 to the associated actions.

Since you guys convinced me to watch RWBY earlier, this is where I'll note that the plot twist in Episode 12 was pretty much out of left field. I mean, sure, Jean was incompetent, but it doesn't seem in his nature to attempt such a major deception. Or to...well...not fail at it, between his apparent honesty/openness and his aforementioned incompetence.
Somehow, I liked predictability more than deep-left-field plot twists.

While I wait for free people.

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What the hell is that thing?

Wait, we're supposed to LAND them?

Kerbin's not gonna destroy itself.
Disclaimer: GreatWyrmGold neither advocates nor condones the use of celestial objects to destroy inhabited planets. Even uninhabited planetoids is frowned upon. Take this advice at your own risk, and you'd better hope you're among the casualties if there are any.

The Dark Drake also has no captain.

Just sayin'.

((Link's broken.))

Has anyone without such a mod ever hit a wandering chunk of space debris?

I win.

...No, you don't. If it's cooling, and it's flexible enough to cool around us, which (pun intended) solidifies my interpretation that the metal was more liquid than solid. Hence, the idea that it would be flowing down the doorway, like it's flowing onto us, is pretty solid.

EDIT: Or if I don't win because of that, then it's a matter of perspective in which case we are both equally right and thus the one who is closer to what the GM imagines is ultimately right in which case I win again.

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How are you so sure that your image is the one the GM intended? If I was piecewise, I'd probably take the opposite of your vision just because of that.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on April 17, 2014, 12:36:22 pm

So, the not-melted part of the ship's walls are bowing under the pressure, not the melted parts?
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We might have bigger problems than needing to get out of the elevator.

Tell me, if you heat the end of a metallic rod with a concentrated heat source like a propane torch, is it going to all reach melting point simultaneously, or will the tip melt off first, leaving both a puddle of cooling metal on the floor and the softened stub of the nearly-molten rod in your hand? Because the latter is what's happened here. The corridor is not buckling under pressure, it's warping and deforming under its own weight due to artificial gravity, with the molten parts having been sheared off by the initial shockwave that tossed you all back.

My statement was from the implications of that interpretation.
And it's space magic, not fire. And while I'm on it, if you put in enough heat, the whole thing's going to melt.

The mortals don't know I'm far more powerful than Draoi though.

This isn't a Court of the Mortals. The gods, however, know that you're getting a fair amount of power...

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on April 17, 2014, 12:14:41 pm

(P.S. What's the point of a name no one knows?)

I didn't say that no one knows him by a name.  I just said they don't know him by the name 'the Trickster'.  They know him by the name, 'the Economist'.
Also, the point can be seen in any superhero/supervillan comic, spies, witness protection, etc.

Not so. Those people all have people who know them by their real names--and they didn't give themselves names to be kept in secret.

This game is one of politics, not just 'money'.  In politics, people primarily remain with their constituents, in this case, what they have created.  Since the gods are neither Omnipotent or Omnipresent and the field of play is infinite in size, while your statement could prove true, they could just as easily suspect that 'the Economist' has carefully built up his own domain in a far off area so it wouldn't be messed with, and, since the area that would be required to search is infinite, they would be unable to find it without acts, and if those acts are spent, the area could be behind a shield too powerful for their acts to pierce, and since the god that manages to break that would have spent up acts searching and breaking a barrier would not be able to exploit the opportunity before their opposition gets in there and messes around first.  Since no one desires that their enemy gets to affect a location first, they would consider that a waste of acts, which would be disadvantageous on other fronts, so it wouldn't be done.
To increase the illusion that this was done, 'the Economist' could construct an area before anyone searches for the area, which would lead to the belief it was always there and give him a fairly effective power base.

If you can be completely unaware of Acts without needing to hide them, why spend acts to hide them? If "the Economist" wasn't spending trying to hide his stuff, why are the others unaware of it? If he spent acts hiding it, why?
Your suggestion not only fails to address my main point--why they would suspect someone who had been seen spending most of their power on various things to have spent another significant amount of stuff on what was a concealed action, instead of someone whose only actions have been concealed?